House Design: 6/14/07- 6/22/07 (Part 2)

This information is now outdated and more effective technologies have been found in more recent posts.

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• --Grey water/ Sewer/ Toiletry/ Shower- Can't have just a hole in the ground unless up north where there is permafrost because it attracts flies and has odor. So instead have a solar composter wich is is just a 1M cubed box sealed shut with a door for removal of pan with a slanted windowed side facing south one half outside and one half inside the bathroom. And instide the box is a screen to hold solids and a pan underneath to hold ashes after the compost has decomposed. The sides are made of adobe(for good insulation) and has a thick wooden top that attach the washing toilet seat to, and when not in use have an air tight seal on the hole----- Any liquid should evaporate or be needed for decomposition or be pasturised. Pasturisation is the main factor in the decontamination and again it needs to get to 200 degrees or a little less on a regular basis. Best composting is done when the carbon/ nitrogen ratio is correct so if you need more wood pulp in the pile put paper plates or cups or kitchen scraps into the pile wich is in the solar composter toilet. May also add lime for more acidity to kill bacteria faster. ----- For grey water wich is just less dirty or less hazerdous water you just pump or divert that water to non edible plants on property. This is the water that comes from shower, but sink water with food particals is considered dangerous water so that should go to compost pile, if it really matters, because gardens have rotting food as fertilizer all the time.----- Washing toilets cost 80$ for cheapest and 400$ for most expensive.----- For the water supply for the shower in bathroom you may have a tank above the ceiling that collects rainwater and filters it with a "slow sand filter" but this water may not be totally disinfected, so if that is necessary then have 2 containers of water on rotation that you boil above the roof or have a clourine tablet wich is what they already use in our public water supplies(clourine, not tablet form) and it's what we use in our pools and is safe to shower in as long as filtered when collected to get rid of any particulates before hand. So just learn how they construct safe backyard pools for homes.----- Also to heat the shower use the instant tankless water heater.
• Grey water(contd)(added:6/22/07)- For safe grey water as it leaves the house to nonedible plants on the property, you just need to have some chlorine added to the water with pool tablets. Either still in the water from before use, or after the water is used, from a pool tablet chamber, before the water reaches the plants. It can't possibly have more contaminated water than a busy pool has. Just make sure that the plants can handle the chlorine.
• Clothes (cont'd) ( costs 100$/year)- I left out that if you want regular clothes instead of the inventive new clothes idea , just shop on the "day after thanksgiving sale" for them when it's always 50% off, and stock up then for the rest of the year.
• Internet(10$/mo or less)/ computer/ entertainment(maybe 30$/mo to 0.00$)- use comunity internet hotspots wich seattle is now putting everywhere. Or instead of internet, if you don't need to buy or sell things off of it all the time, just have a flash memory drive that stores an encyclopedic, all knowing, memory bank of all previous human knowledge. May get encyclopedia cd's or download wikipedia somehow. And connect to the computer for stored info or video games with a projection keyboard, and use wifi connection for external attachments and for a screen use a projection screen on a white wall as the least energy consuming / lite weight/ and small space tech there is. Also have your dvd player or videogame system hooked up to the tv with wifi connections to easilly move around your equipment.----- And for total immersion theatre or gaming have a set of goggles that play whatever is sent into the goggles thru wifi. -----For dvd collection only have 1 dvd and trade it as many times a week that you watch a new show / same with comics or books or games. Sort of like how libraries function. For the cable option, you can buy it if you're stuck at home all day, or if it's one of the only bills that you have to pay, or if you can easilly afford it .
• Actual bill payment/Job- If you could save up enough you could have all your small bills paid by an interest earning account like a CD or moneymarket account at a stockbroker(better % paid/year than a bank)- May only need to work a small amount in the future if lots of your bills are taken away if the energy crisis is solved and you use some of these ideas, and only buy items that never need to be replaced or repaired.
• Medical/ Perscribtion- Having insurance is the only way now, but universal healthcare may happen here some day like it did in Europe, wich I think should be the average illness rate of americas medical bills/mo, divided by everybody, is the amount you have to pay each month in the event that you need serious medical treatment some day( average out what the average person pays on average for medical in their entire life and pay the monthly amount of that each month , minus administration fees of course). LATER ADDED: Universal health care may create socialism here in America if we have to eat and do what they say to stay healthy.
  
• Pet- I say, just get a Nintendo DS game "dogs" or "cats" and leave it at that, otherwise you'll be paying for the pet for the rest of it's life, and also its medical bills.
• Crime- A novel approach would be to have an emergency help beacon on everyones person at all times or also connected to vital functions(maybe with blackbox info), I describe a device that can send a signal thru any barrier in a previous post, wich may or may not work but the idea would probably solve crime if the criminal knew that they would most certainly be a dead man if they killed someone in the woods.LATER ADDED: The super communicator is extremely theoretical and instead look to RFID chips with a large transmitter to be the best chance of an emergency help beacon.
  
• Actual House Building Plan- Make it out of adobe bricks, or rammed earth, or cob, in a thickness of 12in.-14in.'s thick, for best heat retention, or put glass over structure for more heat. Dig a hole in the ground the size of a room and put alluminum poles in the ground and along the sidesof pit, bent high above to make an upper domed room. Put a solid wooden floor on ground level with hole cut into it for access to the bottom room. Put chicken wire all along the exterior and interior of the alluminum frame and also so that it is flush with the wall in the under ground portion of the house. Then put the adobe bricks over the chicken wire making the ceiling of the upper room. and leave holes in the adobe for 2 doors some windows and a chimne hole in the center of the roof. And now construct a bathroom of square dimentions or curved roof attached to one of the doors of the dome. Then make an entryway for the second door with a bump or step into the front door to have no risk of water entering the front door----- Now you can put stucko all allong the outside of house and along the interior of whole house( remember you need a perfect water barrier for the underground portion of the house because if it isn't sealed it will fill to the top with water). And for the floor on the bottom of the house you may just use stucko, or for more durabillity use cement. Now create the stairs to the bottom portion of the house, and then the closable water tight chimney, and attach the solar pasturizing toilet and a rain catcher purifyer system above the bathroom and add plumbing to everything including automatic sprinklers and add all the electrical wiring that you need and solar panels or other type of power system ----- in the end add architectural features to your whole property because all modern houses may be amazingly inefficient or ineffective but what they do have is good architectural design wich is why we like to look at them and buy them----- and if you ever want to sell this house it has to pass a safety inspection, I would guess, wich should be the only reason you aren't supposed to build a house without permits or under code, because if you sold it to somebody you don't want to be responsible for their injury, but otherwise I say if it's on your own property and no one can see it or is effected by it, you should be able to do whatever you want even if they think you're risking your own safety, you know the science behind it and are self assured of own safety. And take own precautions.-----
• (Amendment to: House Building Plan)--I recently found out that stucco is permeable by water. So to get a water tight seal through out the house you should instead use "Liquid Vinyl Paint", on the outside and on the inside, and also you never have to paint again because you only need to clean the vinyl coating with soap and water. And it's the same material that they use to waterproof above ground pools, so it should be safe for the underground portion of the house no matter what, as long as the walls have sufficient bracing to not have any possible cave in.----- For the wall bracings, I would say that just more vertical alluminum poles would be all that would be needed, and all poles fastenned securely to the chicken wire or other metal mesh type. ----- Also for drying of adobe bricks-- It should be possible under any humidity, the same as cement can be dried under any humidity. Otherwise, to build the house, use cement blocks, filled with high insulator(like any dense earth).--- 6/18/07
• The main feaures of why this design is effective, are-----In a hot summer or cold winter just go to underground portion if need to. This design may be stronger in roof design than a regular house(depending on strength of alluminum poles). This house requires the least work/ expertise/ money to make successfully. It can probably even survive any storm at all, because of it's shape and height. It can never catch fire because it is made of incombustible materials(in fact stucco puts out fires) . May even be a bomb shelter. Most materials are either easilly obtainable or native materials so are free( adobe is just clay and hay or dried grass as binder)( clay is made from soil/ rock exposed to water/ air). And by digging a hole that makes less of a wall that you have to build. Save energy from super insulation. Can even plant grass or moss on the roof as an architectural statement .----- Keep in mind adobe is cheap only when labor is cheap. But look at it this way , if it's your own labor, then it is cheap no matter what if you build the house instead of work a 40 hour/week job to pay a mortgage on a house for 30 years instead on an inferior product, by looking at the energy savings alone.
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• Power System- The best solar panels are going to be OLED solar electric cells because they can't break and are extremely cheap. unless you have an inventive new or different power supply---- You may even produce hydrogen by anaerobic decomposition of compost. Or by disolving easy to obtain metal in a strong organic acid that grow somehow. this needs more research though. But it would be used for water/ electricity/ flame/ and maybe pressure cooling/ and in fuel cell car.
• Make your own pond by digging a giant hole and let it fill with rain water over one year, then add air to the water with water plants then add fish for free fish if the pond is big enough to support an ecosystem to feed them off of, or you feed them with a bag of fish food .
• Tables/ Desks/ Chairs/ Bed/ Furniture/ Pictures/ Storage- have everything lite weight and collapsable and not breakable for least work or have well designed sturdy appealing furniture for being more fun to look at. -----I suppose if you didn't have many material posetions like books(replaced by encyclopedic computer) or entertainment(dvd's , comics, books, games- replaced by trading) then you may only need one shelf for collectables or favorite or sentimental artifacts. -----And for pictures just have them all on flash memory, and have a backup card, and put them into a high resolution or big digital picture frame. ----- bed may just be the mattress because I find every bed frame always breaks unless it weighs a ton or is built into the house itself- sheets should be just like a pillow case so that they don't ever slip off, and then whatever blankets you want------ for storage have a storage shed kit so that it's out of the way of your new clean/ absent of any clutter, house.
• Add-Ons - Hot tub/ Pool/ Sauna/ Screened porch/ camera /camcorder/ public utilities/ trash/ sewer/ garage/ office/ gym / studio